Defunct placenames of New Hampshire facts for kids

Defunct placenames are names of places that are no longer officially used.

Many towns, villages, and natural features in New Hampshire once had different names. Some of these places were very busy but are now gone. They might have been taken over by nearby cities or simply renamed. This list shares the old names of these places. It also tells you their current names, if they have one. Even though these names are not official anymore, some people in the area might still use them.

• Adams: This was the first name for Jackson from 1800 to 1829.
• Ammortoosack: An old way to spell Ammonoosuc.
• Amoriscoggan River: An old way to spell Androscoggin River.
• Appleton Island: This was an early name for Star Island. It was also called Gosport.
• Arlington: This place is now Winchester. It used to be part of Massachusetts.
• Atworth: An old way to spell Acworth.
• Barker's Location: This triangular area is now part of Lancaster. It is north of Jefferson.
• Bellows Town: Also called Great Falls, this place is now Walpole.
• Berlin Falls: This was a part of Berlin east of the Androscoggin River around 1893.
• Blake's Pond: This is now Mirror Lake in Whitefield. Whitefield was once known as Whitefields.
• Bloody Point: This part of Dover became Newington in 1764. There were early arguments about its borders.
• Boyle: This was the first name for Gilsum in 1752. It was renamed in 1763.
• Bretton Woods or Britton Woods: This was the first name for Carroll in 1772. It was also shown as Breton Woods. Today, Bretton Woods is a famous area within Carroll.
• Briton's Farm: An early name for Litchfield. It was also called Natticutt.
• Burton: An early name for Albany until 1833. It included the area of present-day Madison.
• Camden: This was the name for Washington from 1768 until 1776.
• Campbell's Gore: This area is now Windsor. It was called Campbell's Gore until 1798.
• Cardigan: This was the name for Orange in 1769.
• Carlisle (also Carlisle No. 1): This is now the southeast part of Pittsburg. It is east of the Connecticut River.
• Charmingfare: This was the 1748 name for Candia. It was part of Chester until 1763.
• Chester: An early name for Bristol. It was also part of Bridgewater.
• Chiswick: An early name (1764) for Apthorp. Apthorp later split into Littleton and Dalton in 1784. It was also shown as Cheswick.
• Cochecho: An early name for Dover. It specifically referred to its mill town area.
• Cockburne: This was the name for Columbia from 1770 until 1811.
• Cockermouth Grant: An early name for a part of present-day Hebron. This part became Groton.
• Colebrook Academy Grant: This is now part of Pittsburg. It is between Indian Stream and Halls Stream.
• Coleburne: An early name for Colebrook until 1795.
• Concord: This was the 1763 name for Gunthwaite. It is now Lisbon.
• Contoocook: An early name for Boscawen until 1760.
• Coventry: This was the name for Benton from 1764 until 1840.
• Dantzic (or Dantzick): An early name for Newbury. It was renamed Fishersfield in 1778.
• Dartmouth: This was the name for Jefferson from 1765 until 1796.
• Derryfield: This was the name when Manchester became a town in 1757. It included a part called Harrytown. The name changed in 1810.
• Dresden: An early name for Hanover Plains, a part of Hanover.
• Dryden: An early name for Colebrook before it was re-granted in 1770.
• Dunstable: An early name for Nashua from 1733 until 1837.
• Durand: An early name for Randolph until 1824.
• Duxbury School Farm: This was a part of early Milford.
• East Town: This place is now Wakefield.
• Fairfield: This was the 1804 name for Woodstock. It was also called Peeling.
• Fifteen Mile Falls: This was a part of the Connecticut River. It now forms several reservoirs behind dams.
• First Grant to Dartmouth College: This is now part of Clarksville.
• Fishersfield: An early name for Newbury. It was also called Dantzic.
• Fort Dummer: An early name for Hinsdale. It was also shown as Hensdale.
• Fort Wentworth: An early name for Groveton. It was also shown as Stonington.
• Frank Mountain: An early name for Cannon Mountain in Franconia.
• Freetown: This was the 1762 name for Raymond until 1764. It was part of Chester.
• Gerrish: An early name for Boscawen.
• Gillis and Foss Grant: An early name for Waterville Valley. It was also known as Waterville.
• Gonic Village: A part of early Rochester. It was short for Squamanogonic.
• Gosport: An early name for the village on Star Island. It was also called Appleton Island.
• Gunthwaite: An early name for Lisbon until 1824.
• Great Bay: An early name for Lake Winnisquam.
• Great Falls: An early name for Somersworth, specifically its mill town area.
• Great Falls: This place is now Walpole. It was also called Bellows Town.
• Great Haystack Mountain: This mountain is now called Mount Lafayette.
• Great Island: An early name for New Castle until 1693.
• Great Meadow (or Great Meadows): This place is now Westmoreland.
• Halestown: This was the 1740 name for Weare.
• Hawke: This was the original name for Danville. It was split from Kingston in 1760 and renamed in 1836.
• Hilton's Purchase: Also known as part of Swampscott Patent, this is now Stratham.
• Hubbard (also Hubbards No. 3): This is now the southeast part of Pittsburg.
• Hurd's Location: This was the 1769 name for what is now Monroe.
• Indian Stream: For a short time, Indian Stream was its own small country! It became part of Pittsburg in 1840.
• Ipswich Canada: This was the 1749 name for New Ipswich until 1762.
• Island Pond: This is now Hazens Pond, in Whitefield.
• Johnson: This was a logging town that no longer exists. It was in Lincoln.
• Kearsarge: This was the 1775 name for Wilmot.
• Kohafser: An early name for an area near Lancaster.
• Kusumpe Pond: An early name for Squam Lake.
• Lane's New-Boston: This was the 1736 name for New Boston until 1763.
• Leavitt's Town: An early name for Effingham.
• Lime: An early spelling of Lyme.
• Limerick: This place is now Stoddard.
• Lloyd Hills: This was the 1774 name for Bethlehem. It was also shown as simply Lloyd.
• Long Bay: This is now known as Paugus Bay in Laconia.
• Long Pond: This is now known as Forest Lake in Whitefield.
• Long Meadows: This was part of Chester until it became its own town in 1845.
• Lower Ashuelot: This was the 1733 name for Swanzey.
• Lower Cohos: The original name for Haverhill.
• Margallaway River: An old name for Magalloway River.
• Maynesborough (or Maynesborough Plantation): This was the name for Berlin until 1829. It was also shown as Mainsburg.
• Middle Monadnock: An early name for Jaffrey. It was also known as Number Two.
• Mile Slip: An early name for a part of Milford.
• Monadnock No. 1: This was the name for Rindge until 1768. It was also known as Rowley Canada.
• Monadnock No. 3: This was the 1749 name for Dublin.
• Monadnock No. 4: This was the 1760 name for Fitzwilliam.
• Monadnock No. 5: An early name for Marlborough from 1754.
• Monadnock No. 6: An early name for Nelson. It was renamed Packersfield in 1774, then Nelson in 1814.
• Monson: This was a town that no longer exists. It was on the border of Hollis and Milford.
• Mooselock Mountain: An early way to spell Moosilauke.
• Morristown: This was the 1764 name for Franconia.
• Moultonborough Addition: This part of Moultonborough Gore became New Hampton in 1763.
• Narragansett Number Five: See Souhegan East, which is now Bedford.
• Narragansett Number Three: This was Amherst. It was also known as Souhegan West.
• Nash & Sawyer Location: This part of Crawford Notch was added to Carroll.
• Nashville: This was the northern part of present-day Nashua. It was divided off in 1842.
• Natticutt: An early name for Litchfield. It was also called Briton's Farm.
• New Amesbury: This place is now Warner. It was also called Number One in 1735.
• New Boston Addition: This was the 1760 name for Francestown.
• New Chester: An early name for Hill until 1837.
• New Garden: An early name for Ossipee.
• New Grantham: This was a temporary name (1786 to 1818) for Grantham.
• New Durham Gore: This area is now Alton.
• New Holderness: An early name for what is now Ashland.
• New Hopkinton: An early name for Hopkinton.
• New-Salem: An early name for Meredith. It included Laconia.
• New Stratford: An early name for North Stratford. It was also shown as Woodbury.
• Newtown: This was the name for Alstead in 1763.
• Nisitisset: An early name for Hollis.
• North Effingham: An early name for Freedom.
• Northam: An early name for Dover.
• North Hill: This was a part of Hampton. It became North Hampton in 1742.
• North Whiteface: This mountain was renamed Mount Passaconaway in the 1870s.
• Norway Plains: This was the main village area of early Rochester.
• Notch Mountain: This mountain is now called Mount Webster.
• Nottingham West: This was part of early Hudson and Nashua.
• Number One: This was the first name for Mason. It was also the name for Warner in 1735.
• Number Two: This was the 1741 name for Jaffrey. It was also called Middle Monadnock.
• Number Four: This place was granted in 1735. It is now called Charlestown.
• Number Five: This was the 1735 name for Hopkinton. It later became New Hopkinton.
• Number Six: An early name for Henniker.
• Number Seven: An early name for Hillsborough.
• Number Eleven: An early name for the area of Lyman. It included Monroe.
• Nutfield: This was the original name for Londonderry from 1718 to 1722. Many towns like Derry and Windham were formed from it.
• Ossipee Gore: This part of Ossipee was used to form Freedom.
• Oyster River: An early name for Durham until 1716. Before that, it was part of Dover.
• Packersfield: This was the name for Nelson until 1814.
• Passaconaway: This was a small village in Albany. It was shown on maps until at least 1958.
• Pattenville: This village in north Littleton is now underwater! It was flooded when the Moore Dam was built in 1956.
• Paulsburg: This was the 1771 name for Milan until 1824.
• Peeling: This was the 1763 name for Woodstock. It was then called Fairfield until 1804.
• Penney Cook: This was the name of an early settlement of Concord. It became Rumford in 1733.
• Perrystown: This was the 1749 name for Sutton.
• Peterborough Slip: This area is now Sharon. A part of it became Temple.
• Picked Mountain: This mountain is now Mount Agassiz in Bethlehem.
• Piercey: This was the original name, in 1795, for Stark. It was also shown as Percy.
• Pine Mountain: This summit is now called Currier Mountain. It is located northwest of Mount Dartmouth.
• Piscataqua: An early name for Portsmouth.
• Pliny Major and Pliny Minor: These two peaks are now known as Mount Waumbek and Pliny Mountain.
• Pondicherry Pond: An early name for Cherry Pond. Pondicherry Mountain became Cherry Mountain.
• Poplin: An early name for Fremont. It was taken from Brentwood, part of Exeter, until 1854.
• Roby: This was the 1769 name for Brookline. It was changed in 1778.
• Rowley Canada: An early name for Rindge. It was also called Monadnock No. 1.
• Rumford: An early name for Concord. It was formerly part of Bow.
• Salem Canada: An early name for Lyndeborough until 1753.
• Salmon Falls: An early name for Rollinsford, specifically its mill town area.
• Sanborn: This was the 1748 name for Sanbornton. It was also shown as Sandbornton.
• Sanbornton Bridge: This part of Sanbornton was later called Tilton.
• Sandy Beach: An early name for Rye. It was part of New Castle.
• Sandwich Addition: This part of Sandwich was added in 1764.
• Seville: This was the 1768 name for Sunapee. It was first called Wendell in 1781.
• Shelburne Addition: An early name for Gorham until 1836.
• Sligo: An early name for Rollinsford when it was part of Dover.
• Smith's Isles: An early name for the Isles of Shoals.
• South Newmarket: This part of Newmarket separated in 1849. It is now known as Newfields.
• Souhegan East: An early name for Bedford. It was also known as Narragansett Number Five.
• Souhegan West: This was the 1733 name for Amherst. It was also known as Narragansett Number Three.
• Squam Falls: An early name for Ashland.
• Stark's Town: This was the 1751 name for Dunbarton until 1765.
• Stevenstown: This was the 1749 name for Salisbury until 1768.
• Stewart: This place is now Stewartstown, since 1799. It was also shown as Stuarttown.
• Stonington: An early name for Groveton. It was also called Fort Wentworth.
• Strawberry Bank: An early name for Portsmouth until 1653. The name lives on in the Strawbery Banke museum.
• Summersworth: An early name for both Rollinsford and Somersworth when they were one area.
• Suncook: An early name for Pembroke in 1727. It is now a specific area within Pembroke.
• Swampscott Patent: Also known as part of Hilton’s Purchase, this is now Stratham.
• Trecothick: This was the 1769 name for Ellsworth until it became a town in 1802.
• Tulford: An early name for the western end of New Hampton.
• Upper Ashuelot: An early name for Keene until 1753.
• Upper Belmont: This was the 1859 name for Belmont after it separated from Gilmanton.
• Upper Coos: An early name for the area later known as Lancaster.
• Warren's Ferry: This was a route between Pattenville (now underwater) and Waterford, Vermont.
• Waterville: An early name for Waterville Valley. It was formerly Gillis and Foss Grant.
• Webster (also Websters No. 2): This is now the eastern part of Pittsburg. It is not the same as present-day Webster.
• Wendell: An early name for Sunapee. It was also known as Seville until 1781.
• West Lyman: This place is now Monroe.
• Whipples Dale: A part of Jefferson southeast of Whipples Mills (now Riverton).
• Whitefield Landing Field: This is now Mount Washington Regional Airport in Whitefield.
• Windslow's Location: An early eastern part of Stark, New Hampshire.
• Willard's Mountain: An early name for Mount Waumbek.
• Winnacunnet: This was the 1639 name for Hampton.
• Winnipisiogee: An early way to spell Winnipesaukee, as in Winnipesaukee River and Lake Winnipesaukee.
• Woodbury: An early name for North Stratford.